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In Youth is Pleasure by Denton Welch
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.85'Unlike any other person I had come across, Welch seemed to be speaking particularly to me' Alan Bennett'Vivid ... surprising ... an exquisite balance of pain and beauty' GuardianOrvil Pym does not... -
A Voice Through a Cloud by Denton Welch 9781904634065
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorDenton Welch was born on 29 March 1915 in Shanghai, the youngest of three brothers. Welch was sent back to... -
In Youth Is Pleasure: & I LEFT MY GRANDFATHER'S HOUSE by Denton Welch 9781878972132
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.75A beautiful and unassuming coming-of-age novel. Painfully sensitive and sad Orville Pym is fifteen, and the novel recounts the summer holiday after his first miserable year at public school. As in... -
Good Night, Beloved Comrade: The Letters of Denton Welch to Eric Oliver by Daniel J. Murtaugh
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Denton Welch (1915-48) died at the age of thirty-three after a brief but brilliant career as a writer and painter. The revealing, poignant, impressionistic voice that buoys his novels was much... -
Fishing Stories by Henry Hughes
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.43Fishing Stories nets an abundant catch of wonderful writing in a wide variety of genres and styles. The moods range from the rollicking humour of Rudyard Kipling's "On Dry-Cow Fishing as a Fine Art"... -
My Happy Days In Hell by Gyorgy Faludy
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23My Happy Days in Hell (1962) is Gyorgy Faludy's grimly beautiful autobiography of his battle to survive tyranny and oppression. Fleeing Hungary in 1938 as the German army approaches, acclaimed poet... -
Narratives of Memory: British Writing of the 1940s by V. Stewart 9781349545971
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book identifies memory a previously unexamined concern in both literary and popular writing of the 1940s. Emphasizing the use of memory as a structural device, this book traces developments in... -
Narratives of Memory: British Writing of the 1940s by V. Stewart 9781403997036
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book identifies memory a previously unexamined concern in both literary and popular writing of the 1940s. Emphasizing the use of memory as a structural device, this book traces developments in... -
Character as Form by Aaron Kunin 9781474222716
Booksplease Price: £95.49What if the Renaissance had the right idea about character? Most readers today think that characters are individuals. Poets of the Renaissance understood characters as types. They thought the job of... -
The 1940s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction by Professor Philip Tew 9781350280618
Booksplease Price: £31.52How did social, cultural and political events concerning Britain during the 1940s reshape modern British fiction? During the Second World War and in its aftermath, British literature experienced and... -
Hotel Modernisms Anna Despotopoulou 9781032081281
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37This collection of essays explores the hotel as a site of modernity, a space of mobility and transience that shaped the transnational and transcultural modernist activity of the first half of the... -
Character as Form by Aaron Kunin 9781474222723
Booksplease Price: £32.38What if the Renaissance had the right idea about character? Most readers today think that characters are individuals. Poets of the Renaissance understood characters as types. They thought the job of... -
Role Models John Waters 9781472116154
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Role Models is a wild and witty self-portrait of John Waters, America's 'Pope of Trash', told through intimate profiles of his favourite personalities - some famous, some unknown, some criminal, some... -
The Dog at Clambercrown by Jocelyn Brooke 9781509855810
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42The Dog at Clambercrown takes its name from a mysterious pub - seductive and frightening, never visited, only heard of - that fascinates Brooke's child narrator in this beautiful and utterly original... -
The Scapegoat by Jocelyn Brooke 9781509855834
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42When Duncan Cameron's mother dies, he is sent to live with his Uncle Gerald on a remote farm in Kent. What follows is a hypnotic tale of psychological suspense as this boy on the cusp of manhood... -
Conventional Weapons by Jocelyn Brooke 9781509855872
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Brittle, effeminate and perennially untalented, Nigel Tuffnell-Greene has little in common with his high-achieving and ultra-masculine elder brother, Geoffrey, whom he worships and detests - hating... -
The Image of a Drawn Sword by Jocelyn Brooke 9781509855858
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42The calm of Reynard Langrish's quietly predictable life is shattered when, on a night of rain-swept storm, a stranger - a young soldier called Captain Archer - appears at his remote Kentish cottage... -
The Orchid Trilogy: The Military Orchid, A Mine of Serpents, The Goose Cathedral by Jocelyn Brooke 9781509855797
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.47A disarming, lyrical hybrid of fiction and autobiography, this forgotten masterpiece of post-war English fiction follows a small boy through his First World War childhood and teenage years on the... -
James Purdy: Life of a Contrarian Writer by Michael Snyder
RRP: £33.49Booksplease Price: £30.02A definitive biography of a twentieth century gay author whose work has recently been rediscovered and enjoys a cult following. One of the most iconoclastic twentieth-century American novelists,... -
Anything That Moves by Jamie Stewart 9781913505585
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.95From being caught having their first orgasm by their mum's best friend to being stalked and propositioned by a fundamentalist pastor; from soliciting spanking dates over the Internet to scoring a...